Wednesday, 11 March 2020

UNIT 99. Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE FOR INTERMEDIATE


ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE FOR INTERMEDIATE
UNIT 99. Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired

A
Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together:

My brother lives in a nice new house.
In the kitchen there was a beautiful large round wooden table.


Adjectives like new/large/round/wooden are fact adjectives. They give us factual information about age, size, colour etc.
Adjectives like nice/beautiful are opinion adjectives. They tell us what somebody thinks of something or somebody.
Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives.
B
Sometimes we use two or more fact adjectives together. Usually (but not always) we put fact adjectives in this order:
a tall young man (1 2)
a large wooden table (1 → 5)
big blue eyes (1 → 3)
an old Russian song (2 → 4)
a small black plastic bag ( 1 → 3 → 5)
an old white cotton shirt ( 2 → 3 → 5)

Adjectives of size and length (big/small/tall/short/long etc.) usually go before adjectives of shape and width (round/fat/thin/slim/wide etc.):
a large round table
a tall thin girl
a long narrow street

When there are two or more colour adjectives, we use and:
a red, white and green flag
a black and white dress

This does not usually happen with other adjectives before a noun:
a long black dress ( not a long and black dress)
C
We use adjectives after be/get/become/seem:

Be careful!
I'm tired and I'm getting hungry.
As the film went on, it became more and more boring.
Your friend seems very nice.




We also use adjectives to say how somebody/something looks, feels, sounds, tastes or smells:

You look tired. /I feel tired. /She sounds tired.
The dinner smells good.
This tea tastes a bit strange.



But to say how somebody does something you must use an adverb (see Units 100- 101):

Drive carefully! (not Drive careful)
Susan plays the piano very well. (not plays ... very good)

D
We say 'the first two days /the next few weeks /the last ten minutes' etc. :

I didn't enjoy the first two days of the course. (not the two first days)
They'll be away for the next few weeks. (not the few next weeks)




EXERCISES

99.1
Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position.

1
a beautiful table (wooden /round)
___a beautiful round wooden table __
2
an unusual ring (gold)
an old house (beautiful)
black gloves {leather)
an American film (old)
_____________________________
3
_____________________________
4
_____________________________
5
_____________________________
6
a long face (thin)
big clouds (black)
a sunny day {lovely)
an ugly dress (yellow)
a wide avenue (long)
_____________________________
7
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8
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9
_____________________________
10
_____________________________
11
a lovely restaurant {little)
a red car (old / little)
a new sweater (green /nice)
a metal box (black /small)
a big cat (fat / black)
_____________________________
12
_____________________________
13
_____________________________
14
_____________________________
15
_____________________________
16
long hair (black / beautiful)
an old painting (interesting /French)
an enormous umbrella (red /yellow)
_____________________________
17
_____________________________
18
_____________________________
99.2
Complete each sentence with a verb (in the correct form) and an adjective from the boxes.
1
Helen ___seemed upset_____ this morning. Do you know what was wrong?
2
I can't eat this. I've just tried it and it ________________.
I wasn't very well yesterday, but I________________today.
What beautiful flowers! They ________________ too.
3
4
5
You ________________. Have you been out in the rain?
6
James was telling me about his new job. It ______________-much better than his old job.
99.3
Put in the correct word.

1
This tea tastes a bit ____strange _______ (strange /strangely)
2
I always feel _____________ when the sun is shining. (happy /happily)
The children were playing _____________ in the garden. (happy /happily}
3
4
The man became _____________ when the manager of the restaurant asked him to leave. (violent /violently)
5
You look _____________! Are you all right? (terrible /terribly)
There's no point in doing a job if you don't do it _____________ .(proper /properly)
The soup tastes _____________. (good /well)
Hurry up! You're always so _____________. (slow /slowly)
6
7
8
99.4
Write the following in another way using the first ... /the next ... /the last ... .

1
the first day and the second day of the course
the first two days of the course ____
2
next week and the week after
the next two weeks ___________
3
yesterday and the day before yesterday
the first week and the second week of May
tomorrow and a few days after that
____________________________
4
____________________________
5
____________________________
6
questions 1, 2 and 3 in the exam
next year and the year after
the last day of our holiday and the two days  before that
____________________________
7
____________________________
8
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